“Berkeley Lecture Series” presents:
A Talk by Ladan Boroumand, Research Director at Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation
Topic: Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
This presentation explores the work of Ladan and Roya Boroumand for the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF). The ABF is “a non-governmental non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran… It is Named in memory of Dr. Abdorrahman Boroumand, an Iranian lawyer and pro-democracy activist who was assassinated allegedly by the agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Paris on April 18, 1991.”
Ladan Boroumand, a former visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies, studied history at Ecole des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales in Paris with Claude Lefort, Mona Ozouf, and François Furet. She is the author of la Guerre des Principes (1999), and has written or co-written several articles on the French Revolution, the Islamic revolution of Iran, and the nature of Islamist terrorism.
Date: Sunday, December 9, 2007
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Place: 110 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley